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How to open Childcare in NSW

What are the requirements?

Are they any licenses need it? What are they?

Is it better opening family day care or Childcare centre?

How many children can 1 staff handle?

Thank you

Hi Nick! Those are some great questions that I tried researching myself several months ago. The entire process involves a lot of applications and paperwork, but the website of the Department of Education & Communities FAQs helped me heaps as a starting point. That page covers supervisor certificates, service approvals, the use of learning frameworks, getting assessed, and links to loads of other helpful resources.

In terms of child care centre VS family day care, that would depend heavily on where your location. How many centre-based facilities and family day cares are there? How are they rated? How long is the waiting list? How big is the neighborhood? These questions should help you find out which one is more in demand.

If you want to check the requirements (like the max # of children you can handle and what your venue should have) to launch your own home-based day care, check out this short article, How to Start Your Own Family Day Care. That's not a complete guide though so you'll still have to read up on the local requirements in NSW

Hi

How about Childcare centre do you have any idea or article that I can browse through?

This article should help you out. It gives a brief outline of the steps you'll have to go through.

is this a consultancy website?

Is it not possible to arrange our own ?

Yes it is, but you definitely don't have to use them. I only shared it because it gave a breakdown of what you have to do when starting a child care centre (getting licensed, getting qualified educators to apply the framework, ensuring your facility complies with WHS/OHS regulations, etc). Sorry that I can't give a step by step guide right now (maybe give me a month or two to put one together).

I found an old post here with your same question. Seems like a guide is really needed. The information is out there but it's not all in one place (I hope I'm wrong).

Anyways, I would start with looking at the NSW education department website I linked to originally and ACEQCA's page on applications just to be aware of the road ahead.

Hi

I unable to open the attachment, any idea? it was saying unauthorised

Lorina wrote:Hi Nick,

Welcome to Aussie Childcare Network!

Starting your own childcare business is quite challenging as there are a lot of requirements required such as having liability insurance, getting service and provider approval, making sure you have the correct safety measures in place etc. It does make a difference whether you want to open up an Family Day Care or Long Day Care centre.

I recently written an article on starting you on childcare business. It will provide you with a brief overview as well as give you the necessary links on where to find the correct information.

How To Start A Childcare Business

Also when viewing attachments you need to be logged in to do so...

Hope this helps,

,
Lorina

Hi

I tried to download and im pretty sure that im login, still not able to T_T

Anyone can assist?

Lorina wrote:I'm adding the attachement here. It's similar as the article I provided above...

Are you interested in Long Day Care or Family Day Care?

Opening A Centre

,
Lorina

To be honest we ( me and my friend) looking about 3-5 year plan at least

So we have to go with Long Day Care

when i clicked the link

saying your not authorised

Lorina wrote:Hi Nick,

Can you try these please and let me know so I can help you troubleshoot this:

1) Were you logged in when you tried to download the attachment?

2) What browser are you using? Is it Google Chrome? What browser version is it?

3) Can you download from another browser like Firefox?

4) Are you able to give me a screenshot if the problem happens in other browser too?

Cheers,
Lorina.

Hi

Thank you i can download it now.

Just wondering im looking for an area to open childcare centre..

Anyidea how to find which are needed or on demand for childcare centre?